It turned my head, and I lived only to see my happiness come to pass.

She did everything to encourage me to hope it would; everything that her infernal coquetry and falsity could suggest." "Oh, I say, this is too much!" Rowland broke out.
"Do you defend her ?" Roderick cried, with a renewal of his passion.

"Do you pretend to say that she gave me no hopes ?" He had been speaking with growing bitterness, quite losing sight of his mother's pain and bewilderment in the passionate joy of publishing his wrongs.

Since he was hurt, he must cry out; since he was in pain, he must scatter his pain abroad.

Of his never thinking of others, save as they spoke and moved from his cue, as it were, this extraordinary insensibility to the injurious effects of his eloquence was a capital example; the more so as the motive of his eloquence was never an appeal for sympathy or compassion, things to which he seemed perfectly indifferent and of which he could make no use.